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 Admin Posts: 1576    Location: Burnley, Lancs | |||
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 drive it like its hired    | |||
| LBall |
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 Elite Veteran Posts: 848 Location: Blackburn | After pizza we started work at 7 and by 8:03 then engine bay was looking like this.  the work was speeded up with my special tool   the small bodge we found on the thermostat housing    new water pump is needed  matt hits things with a hammer  neil cleans things  sorry the gargae is untidy ive been fairly busy over the last few weeks | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 848 Location: Blackburn | ill leave matt to explain all the work that has been done today, but here are some pics. old head  new shiny super clean head fitted  expansion tank cleaned  new battery, starting bull!!!  matts box of many things  new water pump   one of the many badly fitted bolts we found today  matt and neil at work    how we left it tonight, ready to start again tomorrow, god im shatterd  Edited by LBall 7/4/2012 9:38 PM | ||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | |||
| Saxokid100 |
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e469.jpg?memberid=3428&type=profile) dot dot dot Rally Spec Location: Northwest | Nice easy repair!!  | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 848 Location: Blackburn | some work was done today, me and matt drove to a scrap yard to get a few bits for my gti and his gta. as it was raining the gazebo was erected   matt starts work  the shite out of the sump  engine back together and cleaned  some dodgy wiring for the radio  the car was then washed, clayed and polished  | ||
| mini-mad-craig |
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 Elite Veteran Posts: 978 Location: Walderslade, Kent | |||
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 Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | |||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | |||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 978 Location: Walderslade, Kent | Same as mine buddy. Also, that guy with the front wing you warned of on Ebay emailed me back and said it's great condition and offered me to go view it... seems an idiot.  | ||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | |||
| Saxokid100 |
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dot dot dot Rally Spec Location: Northwest | |||
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | A smallish update, With me liam and Bing having just invested in a shiny new hydraspaz pump (with vacuum) from Liquid Levers I set too today sorting the shagged radius arm bearings on mah Rundread. The radius arm removed with relative ease  About the only part of the bearing that was still recognisable, the inside bearing came out in one piece and was still intact which was surprising  Rather scarily the shaft had started to wear its way into the arm, in an ideal world I'd have taken this to work and bored the journal out and fitted a sleeve to restore its diameter but I'm not at work this week so the alternative was to fill the worn area with a small amount of epoxy putty.  New bearings in  I used Quinton Hazell rebuild kits, about £25 a kit and they're top quality and contain all the bits you need including new seals which some of the cheaper kits don't include  Back on the car  The other side wasn't quite as bad but still in very poor condition, really goes to show the importance of greasing your radius arms, if you have wobbly radius arms then this is what to expect, no amount of grease will save them once they get to this state, and this is on a 54,000 mile car!  The outside bearing (left) had worn through the bearing cage leaving just the rollers, the inside was still fairly intact and was a bastard to knock out, thus me having to batter it to death with a chisel hence why its so chewed up  I must admit I'm impressed with the overall condition of this car, despite the blistering round the arches its not the rotten shitter I first thought is was, there is some filler in the arches but its not made of it, shining a torch around the inside of the arch all the original arch lip is still there so it wouldn't take much effort to make it look mint.  shortly after this picture was taken it started raining so I pack up for the time being, more to come tomorrow. Edited by Pietaster 20/7/2012 12:41 AM | ||
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | Very brief update. The Metro has been put on light duties while it waits to have its rear end sorted out, so Wolverine has stepped forward as main car in the mean time. To express its enthusiasm for the role the exhaust downpipe has crumbled at the flexi and its pissing engine oil due to the shit cam cover gaskets that come in the BGA head gasket kits. Managed to get the downpipe sorted today but it'll have to wait till next week before I can get hold of a Payen cam cover gasket. Rotten and held together with exhaust putty  Old and new, the new pipe had an extra lambda hole that needed welding up  A picture I took a few months ago, the only picture I seem to have of my Tro's together  | ||
| dann2707 |
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 I'm O.K. at stuff Posts: 1405 Location: Leeds - A Better City Than Yours. | |||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | So it begins................ The GTa is in the early stages of its 1.8t conversion. First hurdle is getting the body in a respectable condition and now that I have found a cheap source of fuel for the heater (kerosene 72p a litre) I set to with the angle grinder and cup of death attachment to see what the rust situation was like..... Panel seam along the sill is shot, the passenger jacking point has collapsed too but I didn't take a picture  Arch is fubarred   Got cutting, shockingly the piece of panel seam missing from the outer arch here wasn't even spot welded so fell out once it was cut    Gonna finish cutting and start thinking about making repair sections tomorrow, if it turns out good I might even do a 'how to' guide!  Edited by Pietaster 27/1/2013 12:32 AM | ||
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 Border Crosser Posts: 3232 Location: Carmarthenshire, Wales | |||
| GTaddz |
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 Expert Posts: 2568 Location: Up in the lakes | |||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | |||
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | After much fettling I've managed to get a repair section that fits perfect, I'm quite impressed with the quality of the repair panels actually they can be made to fit like a glove if you have patience and a power file. Best of all I've used only ONE PANEL so far  pictures..........   Now the outer panel fits I know how much room I have to repair the inner arch, I'll have to repair the inner arch in sections due to there being no repair panel available so I'm chopping up an outer panel to fit, should have this done tomorrow.  Edited by Pietaster 10/2/2013 1:27 AM | ||
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 Expert Posts: 8490 Location: Midlands | Looks like youre making a cracking job of the piecing the new arch in  The problem with the repair panels is that they just lack definition so you slways have to skim the whole arch with filler to create sharp edges and then just lightly radius the sharp edges. | ||
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 Fish freak! MP Admin Posts: 14989 Location: Birmingham | That looks cracking mate, can I bring mine up soon? | ||
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 'Metropower's James May' Posts: 2977 Location: Southport, North West | Pandy - 10/2/2013 12:39 PM That looks cracking mate, can I bring mine up soon? Me too! You should charge to do MP member arches, might make a few quid and help out members. | ||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | |||
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